Comparison methodology
Why publish a methodology
Because a comparison written by a site that earns commission is worthless unless the reader can check the rules it was scored under. The same criteria are applied to every platform in a comparison, including the one that pays us.
Criteria
We look at regulatory status and the entity a user actually contracts with; product availability by country; the fee mechanism, not just the headline rate; funding rails, including local currency and peer-to-peer options; verification requirements; security and proof-of-reserves practice; and the quality of official documentation and support channels.
Evidence rules
A competitor's numbers come from that competitor's own official documentation, dated, or they are not published at all. We never carry a figure between entities — a global-platform fee is not a regional entity's fee. Where we cannot verify a figure for one side of a comparison, that row becomes a qualitative description for both sides rather than a half-sourced table.
Ordering
Platforms are not ordered by what we earn. Where a competitor is better for a specific use case, the comparison says so in the section where it matters, not in a footnote.
Exclusions
We exclude a platform from a comparison if it does not serve the market the page is written for, or if its published documentation is too thin to score honestly.